Solar System (9th supplementary nomination)

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This topic is already featured. It is being re-nominated to add additional items. See Wikipedia talk:Featured topics/Solar System for discussions of the topic's previous nominations. The additional items are:

  1. Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their moons
  2. Planets beyond Neptune
Main page Articles
Solar System Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon, Mars, Asteroid belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Planets beyond Neptune, Dwarf planets, Kuiper belt, Scattered disc, Oort cloud, Formation and evolution

These articles mark the first step for this topic from specific bodies into broader, Solar System related topics. Now that the subtopics are underway, this article should focus on the Solar System entire. Serendipodous 08:48, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Get me a team of helpers willing to work 24-7, and I can get all those articles up to standard. As it stands I am only one person, working with (perhaps) six other people on this topic. Besides, if this topic were to be considered invalid until EVERY SINGLE Solar System-related article were ready for inclusion, it would contain more than a hundred entries. And where would we stop? If someone created an article called Sexual positions named after Solar System objects, would that need to be included too? By the way, as far as we know, there ARE no planets beyond Neptune. Planets beyond Neptune is a historical article dealing with Solar System exploration, not a article on an actual part of the Solar System. "Trans-Neptunian object" is covered by Kuiper belt, Scattered disc, and Oort cloud.Serendipodous 20:40, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
So, are you saying that if a team working 24-7 had improved those article to FA you would have included them? I'll ask again—please state the intended topic definition so I can tell what's supposed to be included and what's not. Pagrashtak 16:37, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This was an attempt I made a while back to sketch out the scope of this topic and what it could eventually cover. Now the article's scope is expanding into subtopics. Really I don't see what the problem is. The whole point of the featured topics system is to get articles featured, and no topic's got more articles featured than this one. Serendipodous 16:51, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The problem is that I get the impression that you have selected these articles because they are featured, and not because they make a logical topic with no gaps. In other words, cherry picking. This is a violation of criterion 1d. The link you provide shows the "ultimate scope of this topic"—I don't care about that right now, I want to know the definition that includes exactly these nineteen articles and excludes all others. Pagrashtak 20:25, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK. You can strike the timeline. I've decided to make it part of a subtopic instead. Serendipodous 17:01, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I think that's probably for the best, as upon further searching I have found History of Solar System formation and evolution hypotheses, which is kind of a cross between the other two history articles and hence would have been a gap - rst20xx (talk) 21:41, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I just split the main article off from Solar System, and before I do anything I have to get that article to FA status. Which is going to take a while. Serendipodous 10:45, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Nah. Close it. God, this just keeps getting harder. Serendipodous 07:36, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]